My Grandparents’ Generation May 3rd, 2018 @ 8:18 am PST
A lovely poem
On Living May 30th, 2017 @ 10:53 am PST
What are you going to do today?
A Death in Emergency Room One March 19th, 2017 @ 9:07 am PST
Jimmy Breslin (October 17, 1928 — March 19, 2017)
Negative Space October 7th, 2016 @ 8:54 am PST
A beautiful poem
Another Anniversary August 12th, 2014 @ 8:50 am PST
I like this photo of my mom because I have to believe she liked it. It shows her as an adult and in probably the best shape of her life. Her only complaint, I bet, would be that my sister and I are not in it, and so it is not a true representation of […]
On Sudden Death July 2nd, 2014 @ 7:54 am PST
“You stopped breathing once when you were five weeks old. Did I ever tell you that?” No, she certainly hadn’t. “I was about to take a bath and then I thought I’d better check the crib, so I went in and you weren’t moving at all. I thought you were dead. I snatched you up […]
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow May 26th, 2014 @ 1:43 am PST
Happy birthday to the Duke, who said: “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself into our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” John Wayne, May 26, 1907 — June 11, 1979 And yesterday was the birthday […]
How Not to Say the Wrong Thing November 7th, 2013 @ 7:47 am PST
How Not to Say the Wrong Thing: The Ring Theory of Kvetching
See Your Folks October 30th, 2013 @ 5:52 am PST
Kathleen A. Gagne August 12th, 2013 @ 8:10 am PST
My mom died one year ago today. It simultaneously feels like it was only yesterday and like it was a thousand years ago. I miss her so much that there is an actual ache in my heart. She died much too young. It was undeserved and unfair and unjust and I still rage inside that […]
